Platform Engineering Principal

Job summary

The principal platform engineer owns the development, integration, and operation of technical frameworks for analytical applications across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. The role designs data acquisition and processing patterns and builds scalable, resilient, cost-efficient platforms for BI, AI, and ML products, while collaborating with engineering, data, security, and SRE teams on access controls, monitoring, and alerting.

Qualifications

• At least seven years of experience in platform engineering or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems.
• Experience conducting end-to-end analyses, including data gathering and requirements definition.
• Leadership experience in planning or consulting and in multifunctional project teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with executive audiences.
• Understanding of the transportation industry, competitors, and evolving technologies.

Responsibilities

• Determine platform designs based on data types, volume, velocity, and accessibility requirements.
• Architect and build scalable, resilient, repeatable, and cost-efficient platforms and frameworks for data and analytical products.
• Develop access controls to secure platform data and compute.
• Build monitoring and alerting systems to identify and resolve platform and hosted-solution failures.

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